· Private foundation
Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FED | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION RODEF SHOLOM | $30,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN | $24,545 |
| AUTISM SOCIETY OF MAHONING VALLEY | $23,000 |
| AKIVA ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| URSULINE SISTERS MISSION | $10,000 |
| OPERA WESTERN RESERVE | $7,000 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS OHIO | $5,000 |
| YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP | $4,800 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
38 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CFCOMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN7× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +67%
- YNYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION7× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +482%
- CFCOMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES4× · 2017–2021 · $43k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- AAALTSHULER AKIVA ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- PHPAISLEY HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +90%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To engage inspire and empower youth to reach their full potential through education and exposure to life changing experiences.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The united way of youngstown and the mahoning valley seeks to be the driving force behind sustained improvement in the lives of all our citizens, through initiatives that promote education, income, health, and community support services.
YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
United way of bucks county creates opportunities for quality education, financial stability, and good health to ensure real, lasting change for individuals and our communities.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
To insure that all children living in the organization's service area will have the opportunity to experience positive mentoring relationships.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
Serve the Youngstown area community with social, health, financial, strategic life advice, physical education and well-being services in addition to providing housing advice, food for the needy, program activities, and cultural activities.…
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beatitude House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animal Welfare League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMISSION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER YOUNGSTOWN ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA Western Reserve Inc ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH MAHONING LODGE 339 ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COLEMAN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF YOUNGSTOWN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS MOTIVATED BY THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Autism Society of Mahoning Valley ↗
- Who funds Inspiring Minds ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds URSULINE SISTERS MISSION ↗
- Who funds PAISLEY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE ENGLISH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMILITY OF MARY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds SISTER JEROME'S SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ALL CHILDREN LEARN DIFFERENTLY SCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEATITUDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP MAHONING VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHT FOR ALL UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNGSTOWN PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · Walter E & Caroline H Watson Trust · Ruth Beecher H XI Char Tw · Youngstown Fdn General · Premier Bank Foundation · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Frances Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46496008 · Fibushendricks Family Foundation · Trust Uw David Tod Arrel · The William Swanston Charitable Fund · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · W&H Bender Memorial Fund Xxxxx8005
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Senator Maurice & Florence Lipscher Char funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.